[FEL-L] Question for all

[Barry]

This was a mis-post but for those curious the medicine is for a Serval named Boo.  She has Feline Hyperesthesia Syndrome. We gave her "Elevil" per our vet’s instruction.  It took two weeks to kick in but she is doing much much better.  She still has her days though.
   
  I have time to have a life again.  It was sketchy for a while for this poor girl. She has already had to have her tail removed due to biting off the tip and the previous owner wrapping tape on it so tight that it got septic.
   
  If anyone has experience with a cat with this syndrome please contact me off list.  I would love to get more information on the treatment.
  

Barry <darksidhe_of_avalon at yahoo.com> wrote:
    Hi Jan,
  First I wanted to say thank you so very much for the medicine.  It's made a huge difference. LOL I wouldn't even be able to type this if you didn't help me :). 
   
  I'm writing because I was wondering what your first Cheetah's name was again.  I already forgot.  Also I wanted permission to share the pictures of the new little serval with the Serval group.
   
  Just let me know when you get a chance.
   
  Take care,
  Barry

Cheetahtu at aol.com wrote:
          In a message dated 8/7/2006 7:52:26 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, GemOJungle at aol.com writes:
   
  This is one man's option .  I do not think it fair that he say such things.  I know of trained cats that do scratch and have hurt people.  I also know hundreds of Veterinarians that do this surgery and there have never been any after repairs or harm done to the animal, including lions, tigers, leopards, and the smaller cats even 15 or 20 years later.  I also know a lot of animal trainers that would not work their animals if they were not declawed.  This is to protect the actors that they must work with here in California.  Some of the actors are really stupid and they just don't know any better.  I remember years ago when I was doing a picture with Ros Russel and I told her not to jiggle her coustume, she was wearing around one of my cats so as not to scare him and she shook her body, which made all of the beads on her dress fly in different directions and of course it scared my cat.  The cat would not go near her again and did not work in that scene.  This was a very
 sweet and tame cat too.  I am not ignorant or inexperienced.  I have worked these cats for over 50 years now and I do take issue with this comment.  None of my animals have ever suffered from the declaw.  As I said before-------it all depends on your vet.  He must have the experience and know what he is doing.  I hope that you never get hurt.  Look what happened to Roy and he was very experienced.  No matter how good your cats are, you must remember that they are wild animals and they can never be 100% trusted.  If you think so, you can get hurt.
     
  Trained cats do not scratch often if ever.  If you can not Handle them or their scratches, from their claws, leave them alone. It's not fair to harm them because of your ignorance. A few people on this list think they might know better than the choice of many hundreds of veterinarians,  zookeeper's and trainers that voted to stop declawing.  I can only imagine this choice is made from ignorance and inexperience.  So many choices people make about animals are just about emulating and copying what they heard works, but this rarely works out best for the animal.   

  

   
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